Thursday, April 21, 2005
i was wondering.. syf competition's gold silver bronze, do they really mean everything? as in what determines which title you get? performing arts items, it's very subjective. different people prefer different styles. beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, isn't it? you may find this dance beautiful from ur angle of appreciating while one may find it the opposite from his perspective. why does people really emphasize and care so much about the results? when you put in ur utmost effort, giving all ur best and enjoy the moment you had on the stage, wouldn't it be enough? you know in urself that you have done well, it's a sense of accomplishment and the happiness should already be in our hearts. it's not necessary for the results to determine ur standard. you give the class of your own. you have shown the best you can perform. the results are just a form of recognition from the judges. you may get bronze, but it doesnt mean that you are bad. they might just do not know how to appreciate ur performance. do not be affected by the results. continue to strive for the best you can do and you may taste the sweetness of the fruit of your success. (:
so... to all the performing arts cca which haven't go for the syf competition, all the best and just enjoy on stage! do your best!
and.. to
ny concert band, well done girls. who says you must get gold with honours to prove that you are good. as long we know that you are the best, you are. stay happy always, friends, and continue to play nice music for us everyday!
ny chinese dance, well, we always have teh utmost confidence in you. we can see the hardwork of every dancers. glad that the judges recognize the infinite beauty in ur dance. whee all the way! ((:
ny modern dance, so what it's a bronze? you love your dance and we know we will love it too. with the heart and soul you put into the dance, it's only a pity that you all have missed the clinch for that gwh. but nevertheless, you enjoyed the dance as you rocked the stage and you know that it was really good! never give up!
ny chinese orchestra, bet you all still have teh smiles on your faces and sleep dreaming the moment when you were announced the gwh orchestra. really love ur music you produce. with your beautiful costumes and everything, heard that one judge even clapped for ur music! hmm just sad that we might not be able to hear the tune again in school anytime anywhere. continue to do well! (:
..give your personal best and no regrets! <3
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8:10 PM
Sunday, April 17, 2005
ahh i've finally changed my blogskin.. it was only when i realized that my doggie picture was gone! hmm me myself haven't been coming to my blog for a long time too. thanks to those who tagged! you know what, i chanced upon this nice skin at blogskin.com and i realized that it's actually made by yang ge! the picture is really artistic huh. ((:
okay many things to report. 7th april: THE DAY. CHOIR SYF! NYC rocked the stage and we got GOLD WITH HONOURS! tears of happiness just came flowing out and perhaps we were just really touched. our efforts all these months were paid off. all the hardwork from everyone and especially our leaders. we were glad too that we didnt let the school down, didn't let ms lim down, and most importantly, didn't let ourselves down. we were really down to the bottom just one week before the competition and yet we strived hard and worked from the start to arrive to where we are now. i'm really proud of nyc!
a cut above the rest. so true. ((: our spirit. a class of our own.
just before the results, the sec 4s were so nervous that they were all huddled together and it was really a suffocating moment when it was the turn to announce our result. we actually agreed not to shout and scream after knowing the results and just minutes after that, you can see all the ny girls going hysterical, grabbing their gowns and screaming and jumping in joy. unforgetable. you can really see the genuine smiles on everyone's face. real tears. true happiness (: what we achieved from what we put our heart and soul in. hehe but our beautiful image was sort of shattered and destroyed when we were in a frenzy of joy and forgot that we were actually in our gowns. =P
okay enough of that. had cca cip that following saturday 9th april: flagday at orchard. really meaningful experience. first flag day in my secondary school life! and i've met really nice ppl too. there was this indian guy (should be a tourist) with his 2 little boys who really look alike. not only did both the little boys donated, the guy took a photo with me in the middle of the 2 brothers! hehe he was really friendly and the 2 boys were so cute! after that, they were taking pictures along the road and i guess they are really close as their poses were hugging each other and all that. ahh really adorable kids. (: and there was this caucasian lady with her baby in the pram and she almost donated her whole purse of coins into my tin! she helped her baby with his fingers to drop the coins into the tin and i pasted a sticker on his little shirt! i thought all was over when after half an hour or so, she came back with her elder daughter who's a sweet girl to donate again! such nice ppl. hope to meet them at orchard again if we have the chance. and i went to buy my dad's bday present- long dogg soft toy for ur wrists when typing- at taka and with my full and heavy tin i made my way back to return at somerset station (: though tiring, but fulfilling for it was for a good cause.
so as you all know by now, 9th april: my daddy's birthday and my cousin, yee hark's birthday too! had great fun at my aunt's house at night for the celebrations. had barbeque and cookies n cream ice cream cake! whee nice! but my dadd was too shy to cut the cake and so in the end, only my cousin blowed the candles and cut the cake. hmm actually my daddy din really had a proper celebration. shall give him one another day. hehe and after that i gave him the present! and he hugged it as he napped in the car on the way home (too tired to drive, my mum drove instead) =P
12th april. busy day worth mentioning. so during sia consultation, had to rush with shishuang to nyps for some interviews with the pri 5 students for our math project. so we set out in a mad rush with our video cam and surveys and questions on a looong way to the school which was rather deep inside the street. we went to the wrong gate and had to walk a big round before reaching at the right place. had 5 girls waiting at the room at the general office for us to do whatever we want on them. haha! they looked really serious but aiya we were just wanting them to some surveys for us and let us videotake them while interviewing. it wasnt really successful as they didnt know how to answer lots of qns (guess my expectation of them was too high). was rather disappointed cos i had spent quite some time on the math questions and yet they couldnt even do one. =( furthermore, they were reluctant and not long after, we were chased to another room by a stern lady whose room we were occupying earlier. had a short interview with each of them and they still cant do the questions after that. well, we din want to take up too much of their time and so we let them go without really accomplishing what we actually intended to do. so this trip was wasted. had to go maybe again on coming monday..
that's not the end of my busy day. had to run back to ny to return the video cam and cross the bridge again back to hci for my student helper duty for csm heats. was really tired by then but i felt bad having made bowei taking over me for over an hour. so i took over at the javelin throwing section by taking down the throwing distance and calling out the names. quite fun actually. can see how the girls throw and at the same time give encouragement (: many had dashes, that is, their javelin din make a mark in the soil or they din throw beyond a certain minimum distance. there was this girl who threw the furthest for sec 1 but it was her name that interests me. yan chen xue yan or smth liddat. very nice sounding and unique. love calling her name. >.< so after that had a sit at the poolside restaurant wif xr, becky and sand before leaving with my dadd who went to bring me home.
the next day 13th april had our ss test which i din did very well but was still feeling very high and happy after that cos of our class community project! it was after school and we were going to the silver centre to sing and eat with the old folks. was really looking forward to it. when we were there, it was rather anti climax for me cos everything was rather dead as in, we werent sure of what we are doing. just sang and sometimes the sound can die away liddat. some of the old folks looked bored too. but fortunately we have our chinese dancers to have an impromptu performance and the old folks were actually quite friendly. we gave out our different food stuffs to them and i guess they enjoyed them too. had a rather good time there. first cip with my new class (:
after that we went to toa payoh interchange to have a chat with one another at mos burger, enjoyed it (: and had a taste of rotiboy. (litian, meijie and bowei introduced it to me for the first time) it's nice! and we shopped around for jiali's present and guess what we bought.. a bikini! hahha she said she wanted one, so we just bought it for fun for her since we spotted it. but we also bought a nice blouse for her too which joyce bargained for it to cost less. hehe had a great time with my new friends! after that went home with xinyi on the mrt then the lrt cos we realized that we were both living in bukit panjang area, got to know more about her too during the journey.
hmm that was all and today, oh yesterday (16th april) it's the first saturday i was free for a long time! went out with my parents to IMM to eat and shop, havent done that for a long time. funn and it's crowded there too. this time, had rotimum there. actually they taste the same. just wondering why ppl can open a shop with the exactly same taste and type of bread with such a similar name..
hmm okay. i really cant think well and much now. im falling asleep. it's 3.50am now!! ahh took 1 hour to write this entry. okay!! SLEEP! good night. shall update further and more interesting entries to come! ((: [hehe anyone read everything from the head to toe?? long entry..] nitez...
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2:49 AM
Saturday, April 02, 2005
heex okay im doing things really sloww.. again. i havent been blogging.. so ehh on the obs thing. let's make things short and sweet =P
obs 2nd day
learned belaying in the afternoon and we had our land expedition to our campsite near a quarry. had a challenge of building a raft to the middle of the quarry to measure the depth. displayed great teamwork but i felt really useless cos i couldnt do much for not knowing how to tie knots properly. =( yepp but enjoyed ourselves though. had a great soak in the coool water. whee!! and we were just keep swimming, swimmin, swimming! ((:
and after dat it was getting dark and we had to pitch our tents, have a change under ponchos and make a fire! jiaen led in cooking our dinner for us, and it turned out really nice. the rice was well cooked although it was a littlee bit crunchy. yep and i shared wif olivia the rice wif some mushrooms and curry chicken can food. hehe. after dat we had a very short talk wif choon at the fire. he was late and so we were like making a joke on him but i think we made him upset and everyone was feeling rather bad.. but anw we had a rather good night's sleep then.
3rd day
returned back to residential place in the afternoon and we did rock climbing. hmm only managed to climb to the peak for the 10m rock wall once. quite tough. but i guess i took the belayer for granted and yea if i couldnt reach for somewhere, i could sort of jump and float high to where i wanted to reach. =P hehe yar. but it was still really tired. the others tried the more challenging rock walls or even try again blindfolded. i enjoy belaying more (: so i actually spent the time belaying ppl instead of rock climbing.. i helped jasmin for her blindfolded climb! could feel her fatigue down there and really pitied her cos it was really difficult climbing this rock wall without ur sense of sight when the things you can hold on to are like so far apart. yup and choon demonstrated climbing the more challengin rock wall wif portions that has gravity against you.. yea and like we needed 6 ppl liddat? to belay him and hold the belayer down. hehe he's too heavy.*shakes head*
haha and after dinner, we had a wonderful briefing by the funny instructors on our sea expedition the next day and we were busy packing our stuff for our sea expedition in the night. din sleep very well that night and slept quite late..
obs 4th and 5th day
hmm everyone gathered late for PT in the morning and so we had to rush and set off in our kayaks for our sea expedition at 7 i think? terrible experience although i LOVED kayaking on the first day. firstly, my partner olivia was seasick and hence, it affected mi too. secondly, when she cant kayak, i cant too. thirdly, if she cant kayak but i can kayak, i dun hav the motivation and the strength to go on. and lastly, our kayak just CANT go straight =.= can you imagine how tiring it would be to be trying to steer ur kayak into the right direction everytime throughout the journey when you already have problem catching up with the group? and kayaks are banging here and there. but i din care much bout that cos it couldnt be avoided.. although certain ppl werent too happy bout our kayak banging into them.. sorry then..
so basically that was my kayaking experience. but fortunately olivia got better in the second half of the journey and we were back in top form but i was dying then cos my arms were seriously ACHING. really felt like giving up then. great test of my determination. fortunately, i passed (: and we arrived at sembawang beach or smth liddat. picked rubbish, make fire, pitch tent.. and yea enjoyed the sea breeze and everything. had great games and a nice talk with choon. examined the skies for stars and sang songs and drank campbell soup... etc. this time, had a terrible last night sleep. firstly, i din change my clothes from the kayaking journey, so actually my clothes were stinking with salt and slightly wet. the night was really cold and im sleeping at the very open side of tent. the night breeze was really really chilly and my wet clothes are making it worse. somemore, i only have a handkerchief to cover my feet from the cold. how bad can it get!?! that was the worst night in obs. make mi miss my home more!!
so the next day come pretty fast cos we woke up at around 4.30? and yea had to set out early back to our obs residential place. the journey was rather short cos we din take the long cut i think and yea arrived at obs finally again. and actually i felt like crying on the way kayaking back cos i was really missing my family. ahhh useless me. so finally reached back to our place. packed and had a quick powder bath and change. pack up things, had our last lunch, bought a leadership cd thingy as souvenir and we are heading back to punggol jetty!
before we left, we had a talk wif choon again, and i really cried. i dunno why. actually, it might be cos i will miss obs? or.. i will miss my obs watch rajar? or.. i was missing my family and home really terribly? i duno. just cried. felt better though. and when i call back to my ah mah. her voice really made mi wanna tear.. havent seen her for a long time too.. and i guess she's also rather worried bout mi in the camp.
so after taking the boat back to punggol and bus back to school. my aunt came to fetch mi back to her house cos my parents werent in town as i said in the previous entry. yea so i was STILL missing my family. but nevertheless, being with my aunt and cousins and ah mah made mi feel much better and i was really glad that i was "home" with my close ones! cant live without them really. learnt to treasure them alot. and i realized i became really dark after coming bac from obs with lotsa mosquito bites which really pester mi until now.. the itch is terrible! and i guess i scratch them and the scars and bites havent heal till now..
was really tired. and it was the first time i slept the earliest at my aunt's house cos normally my cousins sleep really early. but i had to wake up at 5am to go to the airport to fetch my parents from the airport! great to see them! but when i woke up in my aunts house rite, i saw my ah mah sleeping on the armchair at the corner of the room, and this made mi feel really sad and bad cos i was actually sleeping on her bed. =(
hmm yea so actually obs made mi love obs, outdoor activites, and learn to love my family and my loved ones. ((: whee! so that's all. i really wanna sleep! have lotsa hw! im dead! passionata speech gotta do! pdd annotation! ahh okay. gd nite ppl! those who havent gone for their obs, enjoy it! and you'll know how fortunate you are to be with your family and treasure the times you spend with them! bye! zzz..
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